Over at Rule of Law, I have this posting about the response of the local and Florida state NAACP to the arrest of ten people for running an absentee ballot fraud scheme. One of the women arrested is Jada Wood Williams, the Supervisor of Elections in Madison County, Florida. Yes, you read that correctly. The person who is in charge of ensuring the integrity of elections was arrested for participating in an absentee ballot voter fraud scheme. Who was she allegedly helping? Why none other than Abra Johnson, an elected member of the Madison County School Board. The people running elections and responsible for educating children in one Florida county stand accused of manipulating elections along with eight conspirators.
And what is the reaction of the NAACP? As I discuss in the post (and have video), they held a rally that became a disgusting misappropriation of the hymns and messages of the civil rights movement. And it isn’t the first time this has happened. Similar rallies occurred in Alabama after similar voter fraud arrests (which eventually led to guilty pleas).
Voter fraud deniers have become the intellectual smokescreen to criminal wrongdoing across the country. When you hear people like Justin Levitt or Tova Wang say “voter fraud isn’t that widespread,” what they are really saying is “ignore the voter fraud that nobody disputes exists.”
Apparently, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People regards legal prohibitions and moral inhibitions as irrelevant to the aforesaid advancement mission. But this was to be expected. The organization hasn’t been legally or morally sound for many years; the incentives created by the rise of victimist politics were too strong for it to resist.
When you see yourself and your client groups as systematically victimized by “the System,” obeying “the System’s” rules is the last thing on your mind.
As Herman Cain pointed out, those who don’t want a voter ID requirement are those who want to perpetrate vote fraud.
Mr. Adams, for the purposes of essays I have done extensive research into many American black culture websites, i.e., “The Root,” etc as well as blogs by the so-called “black elite,” Cornell West, Dr. Boyce Watkins at Syracuse and others.
Generally speaking, it is considered by a majority in the black community with an interest in such matters, that the means justifies the ends. As the quote by Mary Frances Berry I left in your comments section earlier attests, payback is still required, a playing field yet to be leveled and a “nullification” mentality that says what you did to us we will now do to you very much in play.
This article of yours displays a reflection of that mentality within black community, which is still hideously segregated physically and philosophically.
Apparently, law against voter fraud are “racist” when applied equally because it’s needed for “social justice.”
I have zero tolerance for lawbreakers, especially those in positions of public trust like Ms. Williams and Ms. Johnson. But watching that rally was almost sad, kind of like listening to an abused wife defend her abusive husband.
Catching the criminal fraudsters is the easy part. The challenge is convincing those rallying on behalf of the fraudsters that they are in no way being “advanced” by such criminal behavior. Voter fraud is NOT civil disobedience.